Don’t you love it when college coaches are honest, even brutally so, and say what they really think?

My favorite example goes back to football national signing day in 1983 (I know, that dates me, but so does my gray hair) when John Cooper, then coaching at the University of Tulsa, was given a phone call by me – then working for the Daily Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City.

Cooper admitted that he had signed a “decent class” but not an outstanding one. When I told him it was refreshing to hear that kind of honesty from a coach, he added something like this: Read more…